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Duwop

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I know today's movies have great and spectacular effects to the point that we become numb to the shit....

But there was a time when great effects weren't the norm.....


So much so that even today these movies stand the test of time and can still blow your mind when watching how great they really were....


First on my list


Honey I shrunk the kids



They used a lot of practical effects,n like over sized sets... But some of the shit was just fucking spectacular and really sold the entire journey
 
This is one of my favorite movies of all time.


I saw this shit as a kid in the theaters.... And I remember feeling like I was legit in the car with them kids...

Wasn't shit cheesy.... These motherfuckers looked real
 
remember the first time you seen this nigga run thru the cell

Open the elevator....

Shit had everybody in the theater shook as fuck



I was gonna post T2. That was the first time CGI had you questioning reality.



This was my shit for the longest though. For what the movie represented, the CGI was perfect even if it looks extremely dated by today's standards.

 
Matrix was great,

I was 17
Theater was crowded
I had this chick I was digging with me


The second that Trinity was in the air while the camera spinned around her



We knew right then this movie wasn't normal



What's crazy for me about The Matrix was I hadn't seen a single commercial for it. Everybody I knew had seen the commercials for it and was hyped to see it. Niggas and chicks fallin through talmbout they're gonna go see it and I'm like "Wut??? Tha fuck is 'The Matrix'??? I ain't een heard of it."

I ended up going opening week crewed up. Still hadn't seen so much as a trailer for it. Whole movie I was in fuckin awe, especially when this shit popped off:




I was in the theater like "These niggas done went full John Woo in this shit!!!"
 
They were in their bag with this one....

I don't know if they won any creature or makeup Oscars.....

But if they didn't...I don't even care who won....

They got snubbed..... Cuz everybody thought we were looking at a real alien when we saw this nigga face

 
How old were you when you found out that this shot of 1970's Las Vegas strip in "Casino" was mostly CGI?



First 10 seconds of this clip

I found out around '99 while looking up how to do radiosity lighting in Ray Dream Studio and Truespace. Back then I was making flyers for raves and wanted to add a bit more realism to my creations and ran across an article on how they made that scene in Casino.
 
They were in their bag with this one....

I don't know if they won any creature or makeup Oscars.....

But if they didn't...I don't even care who won....

They got snubbed..... Cuz everybody thought we were looking at a real alien when we saw this nigga face



Crazy that the Predators in AvP looked worse than the OG one.
 


Saw Contact in the theater, there were times you'd swear you could feel motion while she was going through the wormhole
 
How old were you when you found out that this shot of 1970's Las Vegas strip in "Casino" was mostly CGI?



First 10 seconds of this clip

I found out around '99 while looking up how to do radiosity lighting in Ray Dream Studio and Truespace. Back then I was making flyers for raves and wanted to add a bit more realism to my creations and ran across an article on how they made that scene in Casino.

Today years old
 
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